Jesus: A Biography from a Believer (2010 Johnson), non-fiction

Jesus: A Biography from a Believer (2010) is a book by Paul Johnson.

Abstract

"The definitive life of Jesus from the bestselling author of A History of Christianity... Few figures have had such an influence on the world as Jesus of Nazareth. Paul Johnson's brilliant and powerful reading of Jesus' life at once captures his transfiguring message and his historical complexity. With a superb historian's command of the subject, Johnson places Jesus in the context of the Roman Empire, into which he was born. With a masterly writer's love of language, Johnson elucidates Jesus's profound teachings. With a believer's passion, he reaches "behind the written text to the full meaning of sayings and episodes which need to be explained afresh to each generation." The result is a probing, lucid, deeply moving biography of a man whose life changed the course of history. Jesus offers readers a succinct yet lively account of the man who inspired one of the world's great religions and whose lessons still guide us today">--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Viking, 2010.

Contents

Man and God -- Birth, childhood, youth -- Baptism, temptations, and the Apostles -- The danger of the miracles -- What Jesus taught and why -- Poetry and parables, questions and silence -- Encounters : men, women, children, the aged -- Jesus's new Ten Commandments -- Jesus's trial and crucifixion -- The resurrection and the birth of Christianity

External links

• [ Google Books]